In this archive edition of Radio Curious our guest is Ronnie Gilbert, a folk singer and former member of The Weavers an extraordinarily popular singing in the 1950s and 1960s. In this interview recorded on September 18th 1996 Ronnie Gilbert had just celebrated her 70th birthday and had begun a tour singing with Holly Near. During the course of her career with The Weavers, the group was blacklisted due to their political beliefs and the cold-war hysteria in the United States at that time. Ronnie Gilbert and I discuss what it was like to be blacklisted in the early 1950s. We also talk about how she feels older people are treated in todayâs society.
This archive edition of Radio Curious was recorded on September 18th 1996 by phone from her then home in Berkeley, California. The books Ronnie Gilbert recommends are âThe Moors Last Sighâ by Salman Rushdie, âMaking Moviesâ by Sidney Lumet and âEyewitness: A Personal Account of the Unraveling of the Soviet Unionâ by Vladimir Pozner
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